Portable suspended crib



- W1. D. RANNBY. PORTABLE SUSPENDED CRIB.

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f No. 562,321.

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` SZn/enaf Patented 'June 16, 18.96.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM RANNEY, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

PORTABLE SUSPENDED CRIB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,321, dated `J' une16, 1896. Application filed September 9, 1895. Serial No. 562,002. (Nomodel.)

A invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in portable hammocks for infants.

The invention will first be described in connection with theaccompanying drawings and then particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is an end view of a device embodying myinvention applied to a bedstead, a portion only of the latter beingshown. Fig. 2 is a' side View of the device. Figs. 3 and 4 are detailviews of the hangerplate and endmblock. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail viewsof a socket embodying a part of my invention.

Referring to thedrawings, A is a bedstead which is provided at anysuitable point with a socket which is revolubly mounted on a crane orstandard B, preferably of tubing, and provided at its outer end with aT, threaded or otherwise fixed to said crane, a pair of downward-bentbasket-supports O, together forming a cross-piece, being secured to thesaid T in such a manner as to be rigid with the crane.

To the free end of the cradle-s upports C are attached goosenecks D,each of which is threaded or otherwise fixed to its respective supportand has its outward end extending downward and provided with a slot oropening into which enters a iiattened eye e. on a ends of rods f', whichare bent to form the4 body of the cradle or basket F, the rods beingconnected at intervals by braces or ties f2. The top edge of the saidbasket has a rail f3 resting upon and secured to the said end blocks f.The said rails f3, as well as the rods f and the ties f2, are preferablyof cane, the rods having their ends glued into the holes in the endblocks f, and additionally secured by nails, which are driven from theoutside of said blocks f, the heads of the nails being hidden by theplates c2.

While various forms of the sockets may be employed in supporting thecrane B, I have devised one form especially adapted for my purpose, andconsisting of a casting G, having flanged lugs g, a rear flat portion g3on each sideof a concave depression g between said flanges, and acylindrical opening or hole g2 extending nearly but not quite to thebottom end of the socket-casting G, and at the front part of the same,this hole g2 serving to hold theV lower end of the crane B, which isremovably and revolubly insertible therein, the bottom of said holeforming a bearing-surface for the end of the crane and thus avoiding thenecessity of clamp-screws. By means of the flanged lugs g, which havescrew-holes, the socket may be secured to the bed. Similar sockets maybe secured to other convenient places, so that the location of thehammock or crib may be changed if desired.

The concave surface at the back of the socket-casting serves to permitthe attachnient of said casting to the usual round parts of an ironbedstead, in which case a pair of stirrup-bolts II are employed, one foreach pair of screw-holes, as will be understood from Figs. 5 and 6.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim asvnew, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a pair of end blocks, of a basket formed ofrods secured to said end blocks, a pair of hangers each having one endiiattened out to form a plate, which is secured to its respective endblock, and means for pivotally supporting the pair of hangers,substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a pair of end blocks having a series of holesin their edges, a basket formed of a series of rods whose ends aresecured in the respective holes in the end blocks and a pair of hangershaving plates, each plate being secured to its respective end IOO block,of a cross-piece to which the hangers are pivoted, one at each end, andmeans for supporting the cross-piece rotatably, substantially asdescribed. o

3. The Combination, With arotatable crane, of a T on the end of thecrane, a pair of basketsupports fixed to the T and bent downward, agooseneck secured to each support, each provided With a slot, a hangerpivoted in each slot, and a basket carried by the hangers, substantiallyas described.

4. A socket for supporting a portable hammock and comprising asocket-casting having a cylindrical hole to receive the crane, a bear-WILLIAM D. RANNEY. Witnesses:

J. M. LOREN, JEssE G. BENNETT.

